Med Day [Taken from Live Spaces Blog, 19 julio 2005, 2:30]

Today I woke up early to go to the doctor. My blood was sucked away from me, my torax was X-rayed, I had to undress twice, and a needle injected half-dead bacteria which cause a disease I already had. For that, I was charged Q1018.00. Isn't that something.

I also paid for my RAM chip today. Q130.00. I was actually charged Q120.00, but I tipped, cause I like the results so much. My PC's not blazing fast, but I didn't expect it to be. At least all the processes I need co-exist without slowing down.

Someone suggested I should write a blog other than the story of my day. So, here goes:

Recently, I've been told some stuff about how life is outside my quaint little country. I've been told how most people in more developed countries enjoy more choices, more resources, more freedom. How they see life as a very natural right, how they take many, many more things for granted than do we, the people in countries like mine.

Of course, the grass is always greener on the other side. That's a fact. I'm pretty sure many of those developed-country people (I'll call them the DEVs) also envy the life of our people (I'll call them the UNDEVs). We UNDEVs usually enjoy a daily sun and even climates, unlike high latitudes, where, I've heard, the heat can dehydrate the careless and freeze the ill-clothed DEVs to death.

Still, DEV countries got this label for a reason. They've developed, evolved into societies better adapted to their environment. And it's definitely easier to perceive stuff when you're on a better position than most. And conversely, it's harder when your aim is not to live, but to survive. Many, many UNDEVs live that reality.

The way I see it, societies need to understand their situation before evolving. The precursor to understanding is thought, and thought's precursor is need of ideas. And... well... most people never think if they don't need to. So, I think UNDEVs are just annoyingly trapped above the crisis line, below which people WOULD search for new solutions. They do not thrive, but they survive. And that's enough for many. For most.

And, climatically speaking, UNDEVs are exposed to much less change, and hence have fewer changing opportunities.

I had other stuff to say, but they just don't fit in anywhere. So, that's that. night. I've got 2 hours and a half to sleep.